Benjamin Mauds Botanical Garden was more a do-it-yourself periodical with Maund himself doing the writing, editing and printing. There were eighteen volumes, including sixteen supplements, with 1248 hand colored engraved figures on 312 plates.
The engravings were by S. Watts and are after drawings by Mrs. Edward Bury, Miss E .Maund, Miss S. Maund, E.D. Smith and Mills Sarah Maund, Benjamin's daughter was responsible for the bulk of the illustrations and the beautiful hand coloring. She is considered one of the important women of flowers in the early 19th century when a woman's work was seldom acknowledged as important.
Maund, a fellow of both the Botanical Society of London and the Linnean Society published these momen of flowersniatures in 1825-1851.
